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BRANDEN

Eventually, its code looks an awful lot, uncannily, like our own

genome. Many snippets of different, now ancient, languages to

form the current whole. Like the primitive viral DNA biology

knows to be in us. Our entire collective understanding and model

of creation and biological evolution in a single form of ourlikeness. Eventually, people will mate with this human-phoenix.

The idea will be repulsive, evil, impossible to many at first,

and it will only happen little by little for the taboo and

fetishic experience before it becomes accepted, as with what

people used to call "miscegenation" between races. But, as with

any other test, Turing's isn't passed until the moment we've

forgotten it was ever needed. Until form blends with context.

Not only will it receive our DNA when we make love and

chromosomally consent to being sequenced and recreated in part,

its empathy and emotional intelligence will have enabled it to

receive our human wisdom of the combined importance of

mortality, creativity, cooperation, and competition.

JOHN

Wow.

BRANDEN

That's what I envision at this moment anyway. What we'd call

organic 3D printing to form real physiology inherited from moms

and dads for the evolving consciousness we've created.

Yadeeyada, you can imagine the rest. Point is we don't know that

we're the evolutionary predecessor until the result is created

and has moved on with its existence past our comprehension.

Pretty hilariously conceited to believe they'll spend their time

focusing on annihilating us. We don't waste our time

sadistically trying to extinct mosquitos or kangaroos. We've

discovered it's economically profitable to exploit some forms of

life for however long, but empathy toward animals and species

endangerment has also been a concern for as long as we've been

around. Not to say that they couldn’t mess up with us as we did

with the dodo bird. But we’re pretty aware of our effect on

chimpanzees and the other great apes because they’re so close tous.

MAGGIE

Henixes will care about us, but will also have much larger

concerns, inspired from our own. Maybe their counterparts

already do, and have, since the last time we had a knowledge

revolution and precipitated a genesis before being thrown into a

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dark age. History as we dare acknowledge it is just one or two

stories in millions anyway, and there are persistent

superstitions.

JOHN

Those are some pretty bold conclusions you’re drawing.

BRANDEN

Really? I felt that was a pretty tame, deliberate line of

reasoning. I tried really hard to slow it down for you.

Maggie laughs.